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The BOY Episode - Starting the School Year with Resilience and Trepidation w/Genevieve DeBose
This Week: As the school year begins across many parts of America, we welcome back our long time friend of the show and middle school literacy coach extraordinaire Genevieve DeBose. With some fascina…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
The War on Ethnic Studies Continues, and Takes a Detour Through Palestine
This Week: Despite deep “blue” California being poised to implement the first-in-the-nation, state-wide ethnic studies graduation requirement, the insidious efforts from within to undermine, co-opt, …
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Adulting 101, and do Experienced Teachers Continue to Get Better?
This Week: Sometimes research tells us something new, and sometimes it confirms what we thought we already knew. A new study from the Fordham Institute does both, showing that contrary to some popula…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Happy Fascist Friday!
This Week: Holy $#!&. Normally we don’t curse around these parts, but damn. It’s an abject mess of theocracy, authoritarianism, and outright attacks on rights, freedoms, and the nation’s public schoo…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Kids Aint Reading… Does It Matter?
Data from both the US and UK shows that reading for pleasure is on the decline for kids of all ages, and adults too. For the youngest children, time reading with a loving adult is also on the decline…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
What’s the Purpose of High School?
This Week: A fascinating piece in Chalkbeat breaks down some of the pros and cons of states adopting varied graduation pathways to a HS diploma. In a world where AI can do your homework, where it see…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
College Board Says “No Racism Here” as it Ends Racial Identification for Key Scholarship Program
This Week: The College Board casts its lot with the most regressive, racist actors in our society by stripping race from consideration in its National Recognition Program. The likely outcome of this …
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago
Should We Bring Back the Zero? Equitable Grading Today, and Trump Takes Two Ls This Week
This Week: Coming out of the pandemic, schools across the country implemented versions of more equitable grading practices. Today, as the immediate effects of the pandemic are behind us, new question…
Published on 7 months ago
News Roundup! Confederates Confederating, Newsom Fails Ethnic Studies, Linda Drops Ball on Student Loan Payments, and Should College Students Go To Class??
This Week: Whew, it’s been a doozy of a week in American education. Today we do a bit of a news round up with analysis of the stories that resonated most for us. We’ve got Linda McMahon out here dro…
Published on 7 months, 1 week ago
They Cheatin! Bombshell Piece Reveals Extent and Cost of College ChatGPT Use
This Week: Everywhere you turn nowadays we are bombarded within AI. From commercials to websites, to our smartphones, you can’t escape it. And neither can the nation’s college students. A bombshell …
Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago